Today, in weird comedy pairings that we’re actually totally into, now that we’ve had a second to think about them: HBO announced that Silicon Valley’s Zach Woods will be sticking with the network for his next TV project, signing on to star opposite Hugh Laurie in Veep creator Armando Iannucci’s new space pilot Avenue 5
Having failed to somehow learn the lessons of NBC’s landmark primetime drama Emerald City—the show that dared to ask  “What if The Wizard Of Oz was nasty?”—Legendary TV announced tonight its own intent to bring L. Frank Baum’s world of whimsical wonders to the small screen. Per Variety, the new series is being…
TMZ reports this evening that a Cook County Grand Jury has just handed down an indictment against actor and musician Jussie Smollett, formally accusing him of filing a false police report. The felony charge—stemming from a January 29 incident in which Smollett said he was attacked outside a Chicago restaurant, and…
Procedurals like Law & Order and NCIS and their many, many iterations are, thanks to their quick turnaround time, uniquely suited to commenting on the stories, crimes, and conspiracies capturing the public’s attention. SVU, for example, just did an episode about the violent “incel” community, and now NCIS: New Orleans …
Despite having no idea who he is, the town council of Newhaven, a tiny town in Sussex, has approved a memorial bench in honor of Eazy-E, the late gangsta rapper who rose to prominence alongside Dr. Dre and Ice Cube in N.W.A.
Let’s make this short, but sweet: De La Soul, the original masters of the artfully deployed eclectic hip-hop sample, have just announced a new studio album. Specifically, the news about the influential rap group’s 10th studio effort came courtesy of producer (and De La Soul devotee) Pete Rock, who revealed on Twitter …
Emmy-nominated actor Idris Elba has sustained a thriving career involving an eclectic array of wonders, from racing cars to his successful turn as a musician and DJ (he’ll be at Coachella this year, if you feel like braving that scene to catch him in action). Still, it was always missing one thing - and no, where not…
Nobody’s saying Chris Hemsworth isn’t built like a Greek god, but dude might want to swallow a few more vitamins before stepping into the banana-yellow boots of Hulk Hogan. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Thor himself is confirmed to star as the iconic wrestler (née Terry Bollea) in a new biopic from The Hangover director…
Every month, Netflix’s list of upcoming offerings lean heavier and heavier on original content, a necessity as the industry’s conglomerates begin launching streaming platforms of their own. March alone will see the return of three of the streamer’s most anticipated programs, Queer Eye, Santa Clarita Diet, and Arrested…
Amy Poehler continues to attach herself to stories about girls and women doing whatever the fuck they please with her next directing credit, Moxie. The Netflix film will be an adaptation of the novel by Jennifer Mathieu with a script by Tamara Chestna. Poehler’s production company Paper Kite acquired the rights last…
Pixar’s animators have a talent for culling tears from even the rustiest ducts, none of which will be immune to the studio’s latest short. Set in San Francisco’s Mission District, Kitbull tells the story of an unlikely friendship between a skittish kitten and an abused pit bull. Fair warning: If you own a pet, you’re…
In the final moments of The Departed, Martin Scorsese’s 2006 crime film about informants on opposite sides of the law, a rat appears. This rat is fine. It scampers across a windowsill before credits roll as a bit of goofy, on-the-wriggling-pink-nose evocation of the movie’s human “rats.” For 13 years we have all…
On Sunday, the 91st Academy Awards will air without a host for the first since 1989, and only the fifth time overall. Some lighthearted theorizing on Twitter, however, posits that maybe, just maybe, the broadcast is quietly preparing one of its old standbys as a surprise host. Whoopi Goldberg, a four-time Oscar host,…
Between executive producing BET’s Boomerang, her comedy pilot Twenties with TBS, her Showtime drama series The Chi, and the occasional cameo on This Is Us and more, you have to wonder if Lena Waithe finds sleep to be optional. While we ponder this, the Hollywood maven has tossed another iron into the fire in the form…
Paging Jack Sparrow: After debuting their live show at last year’s Clusterfest festival, The Lonely Island have announced a two-week tour of the U.S. Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone announced the news in a suitably stupid and reliably hilarious video posted to their socials. In it, the trio flaunts…
You would think a person out on bail amid rape charges would take this time to reflect quietly on his life and choices, but if there were ever a shining example of grotesquely shitty judgment, it would be Harvey Weinstein.
Translating H.P. Lovecraft to film is notoriously difficult, not only because the writer was a committed racist whose horror work is inextricably linked to his fear of anything outside his strict definitions of “white civilization,” but because, well, it’s also hard to turn the vague enormity of cosmic horror into…
Just as going for a walk in the woods on a beautiful day will inevitably lead you to pick up some burrs on your pants, so too will perusing something fun on the internet ineluctably point you to comments from the most repellant segment of the population. Call it the Yiannopoulos Effect: No matter how simple the appeal…
Vampire Weekend has released a new music video for its lead single, “Harmony Hall.” In between shots of a green, slithering snake and singer Ezra Koenig’s artsy pancakes are ones that evoke the Live and Blink-182 videos of yesteryear, with the band dancing like dweebs while singing into a wide-angle lens. Also, Blood…
In an interview that’s sure to prolong Donald Trump’s current, white-knuckled, abusive tweet-storm against the latest government figure to describe just how unprecedentedly shady his administration is, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe continued the press tour for his book, The Threat: How The FBI Protects…
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